Fluorescing UV inks offer advantages thatinclude high print quality, improved durability and enhanced productivity. Fluorescing UV ink is only visible under UV lighting, satisfying the need for a robust but invisible solution, allowing discrete codes and brand information to be tracked through the supply chain.
Videojet Technologies has launched a new pink fluorescent ink designed to deliver machine-readable and visually distinctive codes on multi-colored substrates.The new ink offers unique code properties to enable automated product validation and to assure correct product routing throughout the supply chain.
These features help to drive increased productivity and enhanced uptime.
The new V539 ink contains a set of fluorescent dyes and visible dyes, combined to provide machine-readable and human-readable codes on a variety of colored substrates, such as caps, pre-printed labels and decorated products.
The fluorescent ink produces a red, light-emitting fluorescent code when illuminated by a UV light source, and the fast illumination response time means that codes can be read and captured on high-speed production lines directly after printing. In addition, the ink produces a human-visible pink color, making it easier to perform quick visual quality checks.
The pink fluorescent ink offers a fast dry time of approximately 2-3 seconds, and has excellent adhesion on substrates such as metal, glass and certain plastics. This makes the ink ideal for coding on beverage bottle crowns, on the bottom of aluminum cans, parts marking, track-and-trace applications and many more.
The ink is for use in the Videojet 1620 Ultra High Speed and 1650 Ultra High Speed inkjet printers, designed to deliver more code content for high-speed packaging operations. The UHS printers incorporate the Videojet Precision Ink Drop™ system and patented Videojet CleanFlow™ technology, and are engineered to enable tri-line code applications to be run at typical dual-line speeds.
In addition, the Videojet 1650 UHS printer offers Code Assurance features that help to eliminate common coding errors by helping operators put the right code on the right product, time after time. On-board productivity tools display information on printer availability and operational availability, and customers can use this data to help determine what is causing downtime events and take corrective action.
